Doing Business With Open Source

Submitted by Ty on May 22, 2007 - 3:00pm

For more than a decade, open source software has been mostly the province of programmers. Although the underpinnings of the Internet itself are powered mostly by open source software, it’s been said that most open source projects begin when a coder “scratches an itch.” That is, most open source projects are begun to satisfy personal interests rather than to meet commercial goals.